Improvement in breeching loop-buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

JAMES H. MCGARRAH, OF PRINCETON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO SETE WARD,

Y OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IIN BREECHING LOOP-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,238, dated January28, 1873.

To all rwhom it may concer-n:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MGGARRAH, of Princeton, in the county ofGibson and State of Indiana, have invented a certain Improvement inWagon-Harness, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

The nature of my invention consists in arched bows, springing from theside bars of the breeching-loop so as to form loops, the bows beingconnected by a bridge having a tongue or post projecting downward fromits center, as will more fully be hereinafter set forth. Y

The following description, with a reference to the accompanying drawing,will fully eX- plain my invention.

Figure 1 is a top view of the loop, showing the back-band and belly-bandbillets in place,

back-band and belly-band billetH I are in one piece, passing through theloops x as in Fig. l, and pro vided with holes to permit of adjustment,through which the tongue or post B en ters, holding the back-band andbelly-band billet securely in its proper place, the bellyband billetbeing provided with smaller holes for the tongue of the belly-bandbuckle. L, in Fig. 1, is the hames-tug; and K, the long part ofthetrace, fastened, respectively, to the bars D and E. F is the loop for astrap to go to when breeching is required' in place of a hip-strap.

By this arrangement much labor and material are saved in making theharness 5 it is more easily adjusted than the old style; and is neaterandless expensive.

The entire breeching-loop may be cast in one piece, or the pin maybe aseparate piece, if desired, and united in any suitable manner.

lI claim as my invention- The breeching-loop, consisting of the frame DE F, wit-h arched bows C C springing from the side bars to form theloops x m, and connected by the bridge A having a downwardprojectingtongue, B, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES H. MCGARRAH.

Witnesses:

N. W. BARNETT, H. V. ANGLER.

